Word Meanings - MUSE - Book Publishers vocabulary database
A gap or hole in a hedge, hence, wall, or the like, through which a wild animal is accustomed to pass; a muset. Find a hare without a muse. Old Prov.
Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of MUSE)
- Cogitate
- Think
- ruminate
- reflect
- meditate
- brood
- speculate
- contemplate
- ponder
- muse
- Reflect
- Return
- image
- mirror
- exhibit
- consider
- think
- cogitate
- heed
- advert
- animadvert
- Ruminate
- Muse
Related words: (words related to MUSE)
- THINKING
Having the faculty of thought; cogitative; capable of a regular train of ideas; as, man is a thinking being. -- Think"ing*ly, adv. - EXHIBITION
The act of administering a remedy. (more info) 1. The act of exhibiting for inspection, or of holding forth to view; manifestation; display. 2. That which is exhibited, held forth, or displayed; also, any public show; a display of works of art, - PONDEROUS
1. Very heavy; weighty; as, a ponderous shield; a ponderous load; the ponderous elephant. The sepulcher . . . Hath oped his ponderous and marble jaws. Shak. 2. Important; momentous; forcible. "Your more ponderous and settled project." Shak. 3. - EXHIBITIONER
One who has a pension or allowance granted for support. A youth who had as an exhibitioner from Christ's Hospital. G. Eliot. - CONSIDERINGLY
With consideration or deliberation. - CONTEMPLATE
contemplate; con- + templum a space for observation marked out by the 1. To look at on all sides or in all its bearings; to view or consider with continued attention; to regard with deliberate care; to meditate on; to study. To love, - PONDERARY
Of or pertaining to weight; as, a ponderary system. M'Culloch. - COGITATE
To engage in continuous thought; to think. He that calleth a thing into his mind, whether by impression or recordation, cogitateth and considereth, and he that employeth the faculty of his fancy also cogitateth. Bacon. (more info) prob. fr. co- - RETURNLESS
Admitting no return. Chapman. - PONDERAL
Estimated or ascertained by weight; -- distinguished from numeral; as, a ponderal drachma. Arbuthnot. - RUMINATE; RUMINATED
Having a hard albumen penetrated by irregular channels filled with softer matter, as the nutmeg and the seeds of the North American papaw. - PONDEROUSLY
In a ponderous manner. - THINK
confounded with OE. thenken to think, fr. AS. þencean ; akin to D. denken, dunken, OS. thenkian, thunkian, G. denken, dünken, Icel. þekkja to perceive, to know, þykkja to seem, Goth. þagkjan, þaggkjan, to think, þygkjan to think, to seem, - PONDERATION
The act of weighing. Arbuthnot. - MEDITATE
To keep the mind in a state of contemplation; to dwell on anything in thought; to think seriously; to muse; to cogitate; to reflect. Jer. Taylor. In his law doth he meditate day and night. Ps. i. 2. - REFLECTOR
1. One who, or that which, reflects. Boyle. Something having a polished surface for reflecting light or heat, as a mirror, a speculum, etc. A reflecting telescope. A device for reflecting sound. - CONSIDER
consider, view attentively, prob. fr. con- + sidus, sideris, star, constellation; orig., therefore, to look at the stars. See Sidereal, 1. To fix the mind on, with a view to a careful examination; to thank on with care; to ponder; to study; to - ADVERTENT
Attentive; heedful; regardful. Sir M. Hale. -- Ad*vert"ent*ly, adv. - PONDERATE
To consider; to ponder. - PONDERING
Deliberating. -- Pon"der*ing*ly, adv. - EQUIPONDERANCE; EQUIPONDERANCY
Equality of weight; equipoise. - SUPERREFLECTION
The reflection of a reflected image or sound. Bacon. - UNCONSIDERED
Not considered or attended to; not regarded; inconsiderable; trifling. A snapper-up of unconsidered trifles. Shak. - MISTHINK
To think wrongly. "Adam misthought of her." Milton. - PREPONDERATINGLY
In a preponderating manner; preponderantly. - INCONSIDERATION
Want of due consideration; inattention to consequences; inconsiderateness. Blindness of mind, inconsideration, precipitation. Jer. Taylor. Not gross, willful, deliberate, crimes; but rather the effects of inconsideration. Sharp. - PREPONDERATE
prae before + ponderare to weigh, fr., pondus, ponderis, a weight. 1. To outweigh; to overpower by weight; to exceed in weight; to overbalance. An inconsiderable weight, by distance from the center of the balance, will preponderate greater